Kenny....sounds like you got run over when you got off the buss!

hey BD
No change. Read my previous posts carefully, Peter and Paul give some quite explicit instructions on how christians witness, to what, and the prescribed tenor of that witness. Neither was Bonhoeffer 'selling' christianity as such, merely trying to convince Lutherans (protestant christians) in 1930s Germany that there were issues of character and witness involved in how they lived their lives, what they stood for, and what they stood up for: Hitler had him imprisoned, and eventually killed. Respect, gentleness, humility, can there be laws against these?

Even those who do not believe, and it is a matter of faith which necessarily entails doubt, will have a hard time arguing that people who explain the hope within them, with respect for the hearer, with gentleness, and with humility, are doing something heinous. They may, entirely appropriately, argue that those doing the explaining are misguided, delusional or hallucinogenic, or even plain unreasonable, but heinous or morally wrong, probably not - of course someone may try and probably will.

odsoc